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Topic: Qina (herbal immune booster) (Read 4098 times)

Qina has been advertised in the gay press here for some time as being useful for hiv patients but when you visit the website (www.hivqina.nl) it's all very vague and suggests quack homeopathy. Has anybody ever heard of, or used Qina and does it work?

... has been advertised in the gay press here for some time as being useful for hiv patients but when you visit the website it's all very vague and suggests quack homeopathy.

Being advertised or touted in press releases is very different from having objective clinical proof. If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it's almost certainly a duck. If you search the 'net for the product name and HIV, you hit a ton of sites run by the firm or spewing the firm's press crap. There is an exception, a piece describing the action of South African activists attempting to shut down its advertising of unproven claims as an HIV cure: